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LBJ : a life / Irwin Unger, Debi Unger.
- Title
- LBJ : a life / Irwin Unger, Debi Unger.
- Author
- Unger, Irwin.
- Publication
- New York : Wiley, c1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | E847 .U59 1999 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Unger, Debi.
- Description
- v, 586 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- The life story of the Great Society president. "Tormented by doubts and depression throughout his life, Lyndon Johnson could be a tornado of activity and ideas one day and deeply angry and insecure the next." He had always wanted to be president; "then his dream was fulfilled--in the most shocking and tragic way imaginable, when President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 539-571) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Beginnings -- College -- Congressional Secretary -- Young Bureaucrat -- New Deal Congressman -- Rehearsal for the Senate -- Time Out for War -- "Landslide Lyndon" -- Freshman Senator -- Minority Leader -- Majority Leader -- The Civil Rights Act of 1957 -- To Run or Not to Run -- Campaign Year 1960 -- Vice President -- "Let Us Continue" -- High Water -- Guns vs. Butter -- Retreat -- Renunciation -- Winding Down -- Last Days.
- ISBN
- 0471176028 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^99022475^
- OCLC
- 40891119
- SCSB-10197752
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library